Sunday, 5 October 2014

Photographing glass

So...how do you go about photographing something that is both transparent and highly reflective?

This is what I tried. I used a little table top collapsible studio thingy with a grey background draped at an angle - held there by the weight of the glass.

I need the glass itself to not be lit directly otherwise the edges would have disappeared. Instead I used a snoot pointing at the background and the subject was lit from behind. The glass edges now appear slightly darker than the background rather than just reflecting the light.

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This is my photography blog. Here's where I share some of my photos - especially those that don't form part of a larger gallery.
On occasions I'll share techniques used or my aspirations when taking / processing the photo.